Seesaw has just released some amazing improvements that will make your teacher life so much easier! Students can’t delete teacher-created activity pages anymore Smarter pen vs move tool selection Accidental… Continue reading "5 Amazing Seesaw Creative Tool Improvements"
The majority of my students in my 4th grade classroom are able to use writing to explain their thinking and answer any given problem. They may need sentence starters or… Continue reading "Don’t Overthink Accommodations: Allowing Audio Responses on Seesaw"
Classroom Screen has been around for a long time, and I thought it could be helpful in the classroom, but I never realized what a game changer it truly was. I’ve… Continue reading "Stay Consistent with ClassroomScreen.com"
In my classroom, I want all students to learn. Don’t we all? But I also want my nights and weekends to myself and not to be spent lesson planning. So… Continue reading "Planning for Success with SIOP Components"
I’m a huge fan of cutting down on clicks in my work. If I can keep my hands on the keyboard, I can work more quickly and efficiently. Granted, this… Continue reading "Four Ways to be a Chrome Power User"
Looking for ways to change up how you use content and language objectives in your classroom? Below find 5 ideas on how to up your game with content and language… Continue reading "5 Ideas to Up Your Game with Content and Language Objectives"
Practice and Application The 6th component of SIOP is Practice and Application. Practice and Application focuses on how will students will practice both the content and language objectives. It is… Continue reading "Making Learning Concrete with Hands-On Activities and Manipulatives"
When looking for a new program to use with students, my first question is always “Can they log in with google?” instantly followed by “Can I just give kids a… Continue reading "What’s all this talk about Clever?"
New Analytics has a lot of new interesting features that let you track what your students have or have not been doing in a course. We’ve already written about messaging… Continue reading "Message Students from Canvas by Course Activity"
Google Meet offers a way to call phone numbers from a meeting in progress for people who cannot join by video. This is also a way to make phone calls… Continue reading "Call a Phone from a Google Meet"
There are a couple of different ways you can organize your classes in Seesaw. One is by utilizing the unique classes already created through your PowerSchool accounts like Math and… Continue reading "Organize Seesaw Activities and Student Responses into Folders"
A blank white canvas is nice sometimes, but if you’re asking for student responses in video form, it can be helpful to have some kind of template for their response.… Continue reading "Creating Templates for Explain Edu Videos"